Lowell drug trafficker given four-year jail term

CONCORD, N.H. -- A 32-year-old Lowell man was sentenced in federal court to four-plus years in federal prison after being convicted of trafficking in illegal drugs in the Hampton Beach area.

Jimmy F. Ambrosi was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in New Hampshire to 57 months in prison on charges of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and five counts of distribution of cocaine and crack cocaine, according to the U.S. attorney's office.

According to prosecutors, the Hampton Police Department and the New Hampshire Drug Task Force began an investigation in 2011 into the the sale of illegal drugs in the Hampton Beach area, targeting a cocaine trafficking and distribution network in which Ambrosi was identified as a main target.

From June 2011 through March 2012, a confidential informant made three purchases of crack cocaine from Ambrosi's co-defendant, Andrew Wojtowicz, according to prosecutors.

The confidential informant introduced an undercover police officer to Wojtowicz, who introduced the undercover police officer to Ambrosi.

Twenty-four additional purchases of illegal controlled substances, including cocaine, crack cocaine, marijuana, and oxycodone were made from Ambrosi, Wojtowicz, and their associates. Ambrosi sold the undercover police officer illegal controlled substances on five occasions in New Hampshire and once in Massachusetts.

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